Setting Up Xiaomi Mi Band 2 for The First Time

Are you a fitness conscious person? Want to keep yourself healthy by burning out extra calories? Want to track every heartbeat or track down how sound did you sleep last night? Or you may not much of a fitness guy but love cool gadgets. For both the kind, there’s one product available in the market, which is “Xiaomi mi band 2”.

Simple Steps to Set Up Your Mi Band 2 Fitness Tracker

Now let’s have a look on Xiaomi mi band features:

Xiaomi mi band 2 does everything that one can possibly expect from a fitness band. Such as:

It tracks your steps taken

Distance traveled

Calories burned

Slept hours and duration of deep sleep

Monitors heart rate

Automatically unlocks your phone

Vibrate for notifications or calls

20 days long lasting battery

It is splash resistant

Compatible with both Android and iOS.

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You need to pair the Mi Band 2 with your Android or iPhone using the App instructions. Ensure that the Bluetooth on your phone is turned on.

There is no dedicated Bluetooth button on the Mi Band 2. You need to pair the device using your Mi Fit App.

Press the button on the Mi Band 2 as soon as it vibrates and receives a notification from your phone.

After pairing is complete, the Mi band 2 will start tracking your movements, sleeping patterns and heart rate.

Do note that, in order to install and configure the Mi Fit app, you need to have a Mi account. You would either need to “Sign Up” or Sign In to the App before configuring the Mi Band 2 device. See the following screenshots for your reference.

During the initial setup, you would need to provide the following details in the Mi Fit app

Gender

Height

Weight

This helps the app to calculate BMI and give you lifestyle recommendations accordingly.

As soon as the device was successfully paired with my Android phone, it started to download and flash the Mi Band 2 with the latest firmware. See the screenshot below:

You can configure Xiaomi Mi Band 2 with the following 3rd party services:

Facebook

Twitter

Snapchat

Whatsapp

WeChat

Messaging and Call notifications can also be enabled from the app. This also adds negatively to the battery life and is disabled by default.

Hope this information will help you setting up your new “mi band”. We will try to post more tips and tricks for your mi band to get you the most out of your band.